Train Language, Train Tranguage, Shall We?

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A lot of trains have a hopper system for the toilets, which mean they just dump it out raw on the tracks. Hitler's toilet resides in a very grimy auto repair shop in florence, new jersey,. where it was actively casually in use for years. Nothing drives a ferrocnologist more crazy than calling locomotives trains. And now, what's that caboose doing? Is it whatever? The last car is a caboose? Or does a caboOSE have to be red?

Trains. Locomotives. Choochoos. Bullet trains. Hyperloops. Subways. How fast can they go? How did they change American history? Why do people love them? What should we do with all that abandoned track? Can you marry a train? What's it like to shovel coal into a steam engine?

Alie went off the rails at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan talking to an official ferroequinologist and curator Matt Anderson -- who confessed to some youthful railroad mischief, delivered a succinct slice of U.S. History, has train movie recommendations and discussed cars vs. trains in the great transportation debate. Also, why transporting isn't always about the trains.

The Henry Ford Museum Railroad Exhibit

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